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The poetical works of Edmund Spenser in five volumes
The poetical works of Edmund Spenser in five volumes Author:Edmund Spenser Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CANTO VIII. The gentle Squire recovers grace : Sclaunder her guests doth staine: Corflambo chaseth Placidas, And is by Arthure slaine. Well said the W... more »iseman, now prov'd true by this Which to this gentle Squire did happen late, That the displeasure of the mighty is Then death itselfe more dread and desperate ; For naught the same may calme, ne mitigate, Till time the tempest doe thereof delay With sufferaunce soft, which rigour can abate, And have the sterne remembrance wypt away Of bitter thoughts, which deepe therein infixed lay. 11. Like as it fell to this unhappy Boy, Whose tender heart the faire Belphebe had With one sterne looke so daunted, that no ioy In all his life, which afterwards he lad, He ever tasted; but with penaunce sad And pensive sorrow pind and wore away, Ne ever laught, ne once shew'd countenance glad; But alwaies wept and wailed night and day, As blasted bloosme through heat doth languish and decay: Till on a day, as in his wonted wise His doole he made, there chaunst a turtle dove To come, where he his dolors did devise, That likewise late had lost her dearest love, Which' losse her made like passion also prove : Who, seeing his sad plight, her tender heart With deare compassion deeply did emmove, That she gan mone his undeserved smart, And with her dolefull accent beare with him a part. Shee sitting by him, as on ground he lay, Her mournefull notes full piteously did frame, And thereof made a lamentable lay, So sensibly compyld that in the same Him seemed oft he heard his owne right name. With that he forth would poure so plenteous teares, And beat his breast unworthy of such blame, And knocke his head, and rend his rugged heares, That could have perst the hearts of tigres and of ...« less